Add a ctd Profile to a section Object

Add a CTD profile to an existing section.

Usage

sectionAddStation(section, station)

Arguments

section

A section to which a station is to be added.

station

A ctd object holding data for the station to be added.

Value

A section object.

Historical note

Until March 2015, this operation was carried out with the + operator, but at that time, the syntax was flagged by the development version of R, so it was changed to the present form.

See also

Other things related to section data: [[,section-method, [[<-,section-method, as.section(), handleFlags,section-method, initializeFlagScheme,section-method, plot,section-method, read.section(), section, section-class, sectionGrid(), sectionSmooth(), sectionSort(), subset,section-method, summary,section-method

Author

Dan Kelley

Examples

library(oce)
data(ctd)
ctd2 <- ctd
ctd2[["temperature"]] <- ctd2[["temperature"]] + 0.5
ctd2[["latitude"]] <- ctd2[["latitude"]] + 0.1
section <- as.section(c("ctd", "ctd2"))
ctd3 <- ctd
ctd3[["temperature"]] <- ctd[["temperature"]] + 1
ctd3[["latitude"]] <- ctd[["latitude"]] + 0.1
ctd3[["station"]] <- "Stn 3"
sectionAddStation(section, ctd3)
#> Unnamed section has 3 stations:
#> Index    ID      Lon      Lat  Levels Depth
#>     1 Stn 2  -63.644   44.684     181    NA
#>     2 Stn 2  -63.644   44.784     181    NA
#>     3 Stn 3  -63.644   44.784     181    NA